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The Ancient Columns & Kara Kara Bazaar
More information is uncovered about Link's past and about the Hyrule of 10,000 years ago. Link begins to learn more about the history of the Divine Beast, and runs into a peculiar figure.
Tropes:
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Zelda twice begs for her powers to work so that she can finally succeed at something, the second time so that she can save her own life.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The "Zelda's Resentment" memory has Zelda being much more pained over her perceived failure to the point where she outright starts begging for anything good to happen. Her outburst is also more overt where she outright screams at him.
- Adaptation Distillation: Link obtaining the Desert Voe isn't a required part of the game, but one way of getting it so that Link has an effective desert outfit is to bring Rhondson to Tarrey Town. Here, she sells it to Link right off the bat, giving him a practical desert outfit early on.
- Adaptation Expansion: The "Blades of the Yiga" flashback adds a few moments. One is where Zelda notices someone following her who is then revealed as a Yiga, and her attempts to use her weak powers to fight back, defend herself, and escape, all of which fail until Link comes to her rescue.
- Chekhov's Gun: Link's Ice Rod that he took from the Yiga Footsoldier is used to keep him safe from the desert heat.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Medoh is colored magenta in the present to signal its corruption by Calamity Ganon, but is colored blue 100 years earlier.
- Eldritch Abomination: Naboris and Medoh are both presented as giant borderline incomprehensible entities that are forces of nature in their own right, and completely unstoppable should they decide to wreak havoc on the villages near to them.
- Emotional Powers: Zelda's three powers are connected to her emotions, and thus when she starts venting her anger, she ends up causing her powers to explode just like she does. And when she finally finds some semblance of peace after Link saves her, her powers strengthen.
- Establishing Character Moment:
- Teba establishes himself as a loving husband and father who nonetheless is determined to protect them and his village from Medoh. Saki in turn doesn't want her husband risking his life like he already has, and has enough pull in the marriage to keep him quiet.
- Kass is introduced playing a bandoneon, and he quickly makes kind conversation with Link and telling the story of Sheikah technology and the history it has with Hyrule. He's a very wise musician who travels.
- Foreshadowing:
- Kass has much greater knowledge of Sheikah history than anyone else outside of the Sheikah themselves.
- Kass's description of Hyrule's rejection of Sheikah technology is that most of the people in Hyrule did not approve of it and rebelled, but somehow even that wasn't enough to stop the Sheikah from giving up the technology basically without a fight and causing the birth of the Yiga Clan.
- Giant Flyer: The Divine Beast Vah Medoh is officially established as an enormous flying mechanical monstrosity. Its cry is enough to shake the village.
- I Never Told You My Name: Kass addresses Link by name without Link having told him. It unnerves him enough that he asks around about Kass's character, especially with his very fresh experience from the Yiga Clan Footsoldier.
- Jerkass Realization: Zelda realizes how bad she has been to Link after her powers blast, but she is too angry to do anything about it. She comes around fully after he saves her life.
- Mr. Exposition: Kass reveals the whole story of the ancient past and the ban on Sheikah technology. He reveals that though the king of that time period wished to ban the technology out of fear, most of Hyrule protested this by building their homes and businesses near Sheikah shrines in defiance of the king. However, their protest failed and the technology was banned.
- Mr. Fanservice: Much like Zelda in the previous chapter, Rhondson is quite appreciative of Link's muscular build and how the Desert Voe outfit really compliments his appearance.
- Ms. Exposition: Ripp informs Link of the nature of Naboris, the character of the Gerudo, and that he won't be able to enter Gerudo Town.
- My Beloved Smother: Fyson loves his mother but finds her overbearing.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Zelda is horrified with herself after her powers go out of control.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Kass shares Link's belief about the ban on Sheikah technology only fueling the stagnation of progress and causing the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of the Great Calamity.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Subverted. Despite the set up being perfectly aligned for her powers to suddenly strengthen and for her to gain control of them through the traumatic experience of the Yiga trying to kill her, they don't. It's not until after the trauma has passed and she finds peace with Link that her powers become stable and stronger.
- You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Fyson warns Link that he does not know what angry is until he's met an angry Rito mother.
